Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

“No trees. Help.”

“Time travel to 2012.”

“That fixed it. Why?”

“Uh, don’t ask…”

Depressing to think that this economic system of ours has consigned so many of the most talented and knowledgeable people to have ever existed to nonsense like optimising for ad clicks.

No neutral allocations, every bright mind coerced into the cult of inane capitalist bullshit is an act of violence - a thousand harms which could've been prevented left unaddressed in favour of creating new ones.

The whole internet loves Kagi, a lovely paid search engine that can find things! *5 seconds later* We regret to inform you the CEO is an unhinged narcissist who will harangue you in email

https://hackers.town/@lori/112255132348604770

Every time I do tech support for my family I get very angry about people who whine about lacking "tech literacy".

90% of the stuff I have to teach them is how to navigate manipulative software and dark patterns. This has nothing to do with tech, but with capitalism. Tech is not complicated, it is just made maximally confusing on purpose to remove agency.

Better tech ed won't fix this.

throw people more lifelines and less deadlines

CSS quick tip: if you're adding quotation characters use `open-quote` and `close-quote` as content because they consider the document language. 💪

https://www.stefanjudis.com/today-i-learned/how-to-use-language-dependent-quotes-in-css/

Posting “Here’s what ChatGPT has to say about your blog post” in a reply that mentions me is an automatic mute or, if I haven’t had my coffee, a block

That is all.

It's so weird when I look up a thing and see a thread where one of the first replies is the simplest and most elegant solution that achieves the desired result perfectly... and then the thread continues and people start posting objectively worse solutions involving extra steps and software and then other people start posting asking for help with the convoluted methods instead of just going for the good one 💀

Especially when the good one is already marked as the solution

Anyway I'm talking about the Steam forums here, not some super techy stuff lol, I kinda made it sound like some programmer nonsense but it's just about getting old games to run better

I Am No Longer Attending Vintage Computer Festivals

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5587

You know why marginalized folks like me so often don't trust "allies"? Because they are not bound by their plight.

Marginalized folks *live* their oppression; they can never opt out from it, they cannot choose to escape it. They need to either fight it, or drown in its consequences. Every consequence of their oppression is one that they will experience personally.

They will be in the fight for however long it exists; that is a guarantee. And that means you can rely on them being there to have your back, as they are able to.

Allies, however, have no such plight. As an ally, you have a price. It may be high, it may be paid in something like safety or convenience rather than money, but you have a price.

There will be a point where you have the opportunity to leave marginalized folks and their plight behind, for your own benefit or comfort. You will have the opportunity to opt out. Sooner or later, you are likely to take it.

You will convince yourself that it is "better for everyone this way". That you have "changed perspectives". That you have "discovered more nuance". That ultimately, you made the right choice by leaving behind the most vulnerable in society, when the price for doing so is high enough.

Depending on what you do to support marginalized folks, we may appreciate it. It may be genuinely helpful. But we will never be able to *trust* you. Because when the stakes are highest, you are going to be the first ones to leave.